§ MR. O'SHAUGHNESSY (Limerick, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners received an application from Mrs. Julia Guiney, of Ballingarry, County Limerick, for untenanted land in lieu of the farm situate at Glenakill South, Clonfert East, in the County Cork, from which she was evicted on the expiration of the lease in the year 1881, by the landlord, Mr. James Deane, of Monkstown, County Cork; whether they also received an affidavit of Mrs. Guiney, setting out the facts of her eviction, in support of her claim; and, if so, considering that she was evicted from the land, and that her son-in-law, with whom she lives, is a young man with a large family who is fully qualified to farm land, will they give her a parcel of untenanted land in the county to which, under the Land Act of 1903 she would be entitled.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners have considered Mrs. Guiney's application, and have decided to take no action either for her reinstatement or in order to provide her with a new holding. The farm which was occupied by the applicant's late husband was sublet at the date of eviction, and for sixty years previously. The case, therefore, is not one to which the Land Law Acts apply, and, consequently, the applicant is not eligible for reinstatement.